is IINA a decent and safe alternative to VLC?

[MacBH928]

Reminds me of a sign I've seen up in repair shops: "You can have if fast, inexpensive and high quality (pick two)".

That is a wise qoute

I wonder if some of that super frequent update stuff is subscription rental software justifying the continuing cost. I pay for the writing app Ulysses every year and they are constantly tweaking things and honestly I think it's mostly just to make people feel like they're getting their money's worth, even though it's a writing app and the core features were all in place years ago.

To me it's kind of a sliding scale. If I paid outright for something and it's more or less feature-complete and running smoothly on the current OS, I'm usually satisfied with occasional bug fix updates. Especially little indie apps that I just assume might not get updated much unless they really need to.

The constant updates are annoying. No reason to release daily updates. I have been using the same apps for years and with every update I hardly notice a difference. 3 month period is ok. Its a waste of energy and consumes data caps and internet bandwidth.

There was a time when you paid for an app and used it for years no updates and it still works as good as day 1.